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Hi military club love the videos you do. My question to you is, I was wondering if you could do a comparative of how many years between major wars. I am American and my family from as far back as I know we have had 1 war after another. Like my mom was born in 45 and I was born in 66 the it's like one war ends and a new one begins I have never seen this world without a war it's like that is all we know. Just short descriptions of one to the next. I don't know if this is something you might be interested in doing. Will our world ever know anything else. Thanks all at military club for the great work.11/23/2023
I know that the history of war would be a lot of work from one year to the next because like I said in other comment has this world ever seen a time without a war. Thanks again hope you and yours are well JDP Underhill 11 23 2023
@@jamespope2840, You ask a strange question. I think you should answer yourself another question, the answer to which can answer all your questions: What is the cause of wars? However, when looking for an answer, keep in mind that for every earthly problem there is only 1 cause (singular), a few reasons why that cause exists in the first place, but there are thousands of symptoms that are born from the cause. The cause lies in the satanic debt-interest money system with an infinite supply of air money, which is under private (i.e. not state property) law. Its supreme center is the World Bank, which is outside any rights and can do whatever it wants. However, in order for earthly Satanism to rule over humanity, it needs a form of democracy for this inhumane money system to keep people believing that everything has to be as it is. Above all, making people believe that people are bad, which is why wars are inevitable. That is why satanic pseudo-democracy was introduced at the same time as the satanic money system in the form of colorful parties. Their only task is to give people the illusion that they have a say and to divide the people into as many ideologically led groups (parties) as possible, which even fight each other. Therefore, a social system of love works as follows: You need an uncontrollable monetary system like Bitcoin or Blackfort (i.e. not controlled by a central bank) and a real people's democracy where there are no elites of any kind, where only the law of swarm intelligence is at work. This is the cause in their description, with which you can explain all the manifestations (symptoms) of our current, satanic form of society, especially why humanity is kept in a constant state of war. Consider the simple question: If 99.9990% of all people don't want war, how do 0.0009% (owners of the World Bank in conjunction with its authority, the Vatican) of humanity manage to seduce the other 99.9990% to go to war with each other lead???
My grandfather was in this airlift effort. A Stuka rear gunner with St.G 151 transferred to Verbindungskommando (S) 4 at Nikolayev as they reassigned any available air crew for cargo duties for the JU52's and HE111. His narrative is very similar to this account, half frozen men storming the cargo doors Despite incredible odds flying the long distance to and from Stalingrad, he survived the war, later he wished for no sons and only daughters as men were simply disposable to governments strategic goals.
@@NapFloridian Another really bad thing is after governments are done with their soldiers they just kick them to the curb. My Dad was a WW2 Marine Raider. He did survive the war physically but he had a lot of issues related to the war. I can still remember back in the mid 60's when I was a kid hearing him yell in the night "the Japs are coming!" So more than 20 years later he was having nightmares related to the war. He drank a lot I think to self medicate. He never did get much help from the VA and in 1994 he died in the Veterans hospital in a way that would be very unlikely in a normal hospital. Anyhow for governments soldiers are expendable both in wartime and later in life as well. If they are dead you don't have to keep any promises as far as medical care, pensions or anything else! Something to think about!
@@libertycowboy2495 Beleve it or not a lot of guys in Viet Nam,we’re enlisted,we had draftees,but alot were enlisted!Of course in war all are eligible!But as 76 year old Viet Nam veteran!We knew nothing of politics,it was never discussed!The country called and we answered,just like the men before us!I did not realize the fiasco of Viet Nam till,many,many,year later!We trusted our country,and all that aside!America,the greatest place on earth,if you find fault with that,why are so many coming here,many dying to get here!If you don’t like it ,leave on a jet plane!Thomas A.Filipiak 1st Cavalry Viet Nam 1967 1968!!!
Went to high school in Germany in early 70’s and worked a German veteran who was captured at Stalingrad. He was an Luftwaffe enlisted man unable to get on the lasts flights out. He spent nine years as a POW and returned home in 1952. He was a hard worker, an alcoholic and prone to outbursts for no apparent reason. He never mentioned the war other than to say he was one of only 600 to return from a camp of 10,000. We were afraid of him, but he was respected by the other workers.
My next door neighbour in the UK was a German Paratrooper, an Alpine Specialisist as he was from Bavaria. Kicked the Brits out of Greece. Parachuted into Crete, won an Knight's Cross (blown up with his flamethrower whilst attacking pillboxes on the heights of Crete), walked out of Russia with a handful of sunflower seeds as food and was downgraded to defensive duties at Cherbourg where he was capture in 44 and moved to the UK. A great friend and the hardest bastard you have ever met.
@@jackjohnsen8506 Well if you were paying attention and had any knowledge of WW2, which being a Yank you probably have bugger all knowledge of sweet FA, you would realise he kicked the Brits and Commonwealth out of Greece AND Crete, got his ass handed to him by the Russians, and ended up in Cherbourg, where the Allied landings were Yanks, Canadians, Brits. You were not alone. I, being a Vet' with 22 yrs service understood and appreciated what he did. Whereas, you're just a Tw@t.
My grandfather had been in the german army but he had never spoken to me about that time. It was at his funeral that I learned, by the eulogy, that he had been in Stalingrad and he escaped on foot through the russian lines just days before the collapse making his way back to the own lines. Russian civilians had shown him a safe way. Due to his injuries and some freezing he was assessed not front usable after this only to be reactivated later in the Volkssturm shortly before the end of the war, when he and the other guy, both(!) of them tasked to defend some unimportand village in Bavaria against the US Army, decided to drop their panzerfausts into the next fishing pond and go home.
I am from Romania, my grand father escaped from Stalingrad alive but wounded. He told me some stories I will never forget. Cannibalism was rampant in Stalingrad, the Russian civilians were eating one another to survive and if they got some Axis prisoner, well, he got served or dinner. He saw people attacking the solders with their bare hands like zombies just to obtain some food. Was so cold outside that any sentinel who got asleep risked to be found dead in the morning. The Axis tanks that were running non gasoline could not start if stopped for more than 1h so they had to start thee engines from tine to time and to start a tank you had to do it manually, two men rotating a starter and in those conditions, starving this was like climbing a mountain.
Мои родители родились и выросли в Сталинграде. Весь ад Сталинградской битвы в свои 7-8 лет испытали на себе. Я тоже всю жизнь живу в этом городе. Лично мне очень и очень жаль, что кто-то из немецких, румынских, итальянских солдат и офицеров вернулся живым домой. После всего того, что они сотворили в моём городе, в моей стране просто смерть на поле боя, от голода или болезней была бы для них самой лёгкой расплатой. Ещё раз повторю: мне очень жаль, что кто-то из армии Гитлера и его союзников уцелел в России. Очень жаль.
@@ОлВер-т7л Then we're sorry that you have no soul and still full of hate after that much time. The were just soldiers following orders, many (if not all) of them didn't want to be there. Somehow I doubt that you're that old and still have the energy to post on UA-cam, but if you're real and not a troll then I feel sorry for you.
Thank you for this video! I feel a very deep and emotional tie to the battle of Stalingrad and the people who perished there. Out of my family 23 members served in the Wehrmacht. One of my great uncles was Generalleutnant Bogislav von Studnitz, commanding general of the 87th Infanteriedivision and part of the 6th Army. He was reposted and became supreme commander of the North-Agean theater of war (Thesaloniki, Greece) before and thus did not get encircled in Stalingrad. His only son, Ernst-Felix von Studnitz, was not so lucky, he served as a young Leutnant in a Panzergrenadierregiment and was seriously wounded in the final days of the Kessel. He was last seen at the airfield in Gumrak, described in this video and was one of the thousands, hoping to be airlifted out. He never made it out. A few days after his death, his mother received the news that he had fallen. On EXACTLY the same day, she received the news of her son, another group of officers came to her house to inform her, that her husband - Bogislav von Studnitz, had been killed by partisans in Northern Greece. Due to this family connection to the Stalingrad tragedy, I for a number of years, was invited to the annual meetings of the Stalingrad Veteran organization meeting each year in Limburg. Very touching to see these old and impressive old gentlemen. Sadly enough all came to an abrubt stop due to the Covid lock downs. I am afraid that there will no longer be any such meetings.
Thank you, I'm glad you like our work. Incredibly, this video describes the events that your relative experienced.... The history of your family is amazing, it must be remembered and not forgotten. Unfortunately, this war has brought a lot of grief to families around the world.
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY Yes, history and heritage is important to us in the family. We have direct lineage and can track back to 1306 AD and to this day have family reunions every two years 🙂
@@rabanvonstudnitz771you have such nice family, my family also can be tracked to almost 900 years ago, the documents we have are dated 435 Hijri calendar (Islamic) or 1043 & 1044 Gregorian calendar, that is the oldest we can find. Now this document along others are in the museum in Cairo. Wish you the best always. Salute to the fallen ones and those survived 🫡 One's motherland is uncompromisable ❤
Thank you for this story about “Friedrich Wilhelm Klemm” who managed to escape by plane. If you're interested, I'll translate a story from the Stalingrad Kessel that really happened like this: The last flight out of Stalingrad was so dramatic To fly, you need airplanes - and airfields. In the third week of January 1943, the Wehrmacht's Army Group South certainly had transport aircraft at its disposal; not particularly many, but still over a hundred operational Junkers Ju 52 and Heinkel He 111 aircraft. But what was no longer available were landing fields. That is why the last flight to rescue the wounded from the Stalingrad cauldron took place on January 23, 1943. When the Red Army encircled the German 6th Army in the ruins of the city on the Volga on November 22, 1942, there were still seven operational airfields under German control. All of them were located on the west bank of the Volga, between ten and 28 kilometers from the embattled city center. But from day to day, the Red Army tightened its grip on the encirclement, especially when the German attempt to unseat the army was aborted shortly before Christmas. One airfield after another was lost until, in the third week of January, only the improvised Stalingradski airfield could be approached. Several Soviet artillery batteries concentrated their fire on the airfield. And when planes were about to land, they even intensified their fire. Some aircraft were hit directly before or after landing or were so damaged by splinters that they could no longer fly back - in total, almost half of the 1000 or so transport aircraft used during the airlift to supply the 6th Army were lost; according to various sources, between 488 and 495. In Stalingradski, hundreds of wounded soldiers were constantly waiting for a chance to be flown out. Permission was granted to soldiers who had the prospect of being able to return to full operational capability after treatment in a properly equipped military hospital. The most seriously injured, on the other hand, had not been given this chance for days - they would hardly have survived the ten-kilometer journey through the freezing cold to the airfield. On January 22, 1943, Fritz Hartnagel had the chance to leave the cauldron by plane. The almost 26-year-old officer was no longer fit to fight due to frostbite on his hands and feet. But he had made it to Stalingradski and found the strength to run towards one of the three planes that had just landed and climb aboard. When the planes, three converted Heinkel bombers, were full, the crews had to use rifle butts to push away other injured people who tried to squeeze in. Desperate soldiers also clung to the undercarriages. Fritz Hartnagel, Sophie Scholl's fiancé, was one of the last to be flown out of Stalingrad - but there were actually three more successful flights the next day, January 23, 1943. Among the crew was the then 25-year-old Michael Deiml from Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate. The Heinkel, piloted by Peter Adrian with the on-board mechanic Deiml, took off from Novocherkask at 7.25 am on that Saturday and landed in Stalingradski at 9.20 am. “As we were unloading the sacks of bread, suddenly shots were fired all around us by Russian fighter planes,” Deiml later reported: ”I immediately jumped into the plane and shot at the attacking planes with a machine gun.” Fortunately, neither the plane nor the crew members, nor the approaching wounded, were injured. And there was no second attack either: “We hurriedly unloaded our sacks of bread. Suddenly we heard a dull thud and, looking towards it, we saw a soldier without a head fall over next to the rotating propeller on the left engine of our plane. All that was left of the head was blood on the left landing gear.” The man had killed himself, whether out of weakness or deliberately. The Heinkel took off again at 10.45 a.m. and landed in Novocherkask at 12.20 p.m. The three transport planes from the morning of January 23, 1943 were the last planes that were able to land in the Stalingrad cauldron. In the afternoon of the same day, Soviet troops conquered Stalingradski; there was no longer a suitable airfield. Over the next few days, Deiml and his comrades still dropped supply bombs by parachute, the last time twice on the night of January 28-29, 1945: “The last drop was confirmed by radio from the cauldron.” Two days later, the German troops trapped in the south of the ruined city surrendered, and on February 2, the last units a little further north finally surrendered. The battle for Stalingrad was over. It had cost the lives of 145,000 Germans directly, and just under 100,000 more were taken prisoner of war, from which only 6,000 returned. The losses of the Red Army are estimated at 700,000 dead and wounded. Of the crews of the last three transport planes, only one survived the war: Michael Deiml. He died shortly before his 91st birthday in 2009. Ich hoffe ihr mögt diese Geschichte!
OMG....what a harrowing escape. I am a Vietnam combat disabled vet. (Slight) And I cannot even imagine this situation. My grandfather was a POW of the Russians in WW1, and he came back a skeleton and walked with a cane for over a year. I'm happy to hear that this man, like my grandpa made it out alive. Great narration of a most unusual war story.
Sure..... typical American BS underneath anything military or war related. A stolen valor clown. Even under a car commercial in the comments you find them. "I served this and that.... hoping for that "thank you for your service BS"
In 1967, I was a dental Lab specialist in the US Army in germany near Nurember. I had a german working for me, and his name was Victor Zimmerman. Victor was a surviver of the Russian camps, after he was captured, because He made dental appliances for the Russian officers. Victor died while I was there from the results of his capture. My little unit went to the funeral in our class A uniforms, with our XO....
@@judetexeira753 I think very few people would find this story interesting, and if they did, they would be old men , like me without the Computer and phone skills, to make it worth while, but thanks for the comment...
@@jackjohnsen8506 I think you underestimate ...There are almost no stories ,About captured german soldiers in Russia......That part is is understudied or not in the public domain...Old men maybe..But there are young people who are curious as well as from a history point of view studies too..If you can...Record and upload..so that these stories remain for ever
These diary entries give me an entirely new perspective on the history of WW II. They are pure gold in my opinion. I became interested in WW I and WW II history when I was 12 years old and my father purchased a subscription to the Timelife WWI & II series. These were very good starter books to get a basic understanding the of the history but they (like most books and documentaries) were always formatted in a large overall perspective of the battles. These diary entries give an individual perspective of what a single soldier experienced. It was so much easier to dislike what to me was the enemy when I was reading or watching from that perspective. Now you’ve humanized the individuals and that makes a huge difference! When I hear what the individual soldiers endured and suffered it makes it impossible to feel anything but sympathy and compassion when I hear the personal diaries of both the German and Russian soldiers, the stifling heat, the knee deep mud, the bitter cold, hope and hopelessness, the starvation….well you get my point. It is especially disturbing when the diary entries suddenly stop and it because the human being I was getting to know is killed in action on such and such a date. It so easy to dislike, even hate when the book refers to an entire army,..it’s not so easy (impossible) to hate when it’s now an actual individual human being with parents, a wife, a girlfriend, a person with hopes and dreams for a future and then, in an instance that’s all gone! It’s entirely different when you humanize a person, regardless of what side they’re fighting for these diary entries completely change my entire perspective of the Second World War. I wish more people would watch/listen to your channel, only good would come from it! Sincerely, J Henderson (Doc) BTW, I was in the army for 3 year and trained as a combat medic as a means to attend medical school and now work as an ER physician. I saw very limited combat under the UN (wearing a pale blue helmet, standing out like a sore thumb) in Bosnia/Herzegovina in ‘93, but that pales in comparison to what these soldiers endured. I hesitate to even mention it! Although it did teach me the idiotic waste of war.
John, or as we would say Doc, no need to minimise or compare your military service to theirs. What matters is; you served. You did your job... And that's all that counts. No one can take that away from you.
@@sking3492 I appreciate your kind words and I considered my military service a privilege. The moment I was assigned to my unit my name was ignored and from then on it was…..Doc, we need you to do this or Doc we need you over here! I couldn’t help but notice you wrote…Quote“or as WE would say..Doc”. The only people that would know to call a medic by that name are the ones that are or have served in the military which leads me to believe that you also served your country. I felt it would sound very selfish and pathetic to compare my tour in Bosnia under limited risk and one firefight to what the Wehrmacht soldiers endured and suffered for years on the Eastern front. I never went hungry, suffered in the cold from improper clothing and sure as hell didn’t have a psychopath like Hitler giving egotistical orders to hold out, fight and die to the last man! My superiors cared about (us) the men under their command. That’s why I wanted to make it clear and not compare my experience with those poor bastards (most of whom didn’t survive to return home) suffered. I consider the Wehrmacht very different from the SS, the Waffen SS and especially the Einsatzgruppen SS for whom I have the most contempt because they followed behind the Wehrmacht soldiers after the areas had been secured then had the innocent civilians (mostly Jews) lined up in front of deep trenches and murdered by a bullet to the back of the head! Apart from being morally reprehensible and illegal,its downright COWARDLY! Good talking with you, Asking! Take care. Doc
@@sking3492…. ‘You served. You did your job. That’s all that matters… and no one can take that away from you.’ I absolutely agree. - A Proud Sergeant, US Air Force, 1985-1989
Thanks, Doc. Vietnam, ‘66-‘67. Never minimize your service, my friend. You stood to, swore the oath and, beyond that, your oath at some deep level within as a medic. All of us have the greatest love and deepest respect for our combat corpsmen/medics.
@@dankelly2147 Hey Brother, I thought you were a veteran. People are so ignorant of the Vietnam war. The welcome home you guys got pisses me off beyond belief. THANK YOU for YOUR service, you put a stop to the dangerous expansion of communism and god help us had you guys not prevented that. Most people don’t understand what it’s like to have someone trying to kill you, that why I minimized my service, had I just be talking to you, I would have been more forthcoming, you, I know, can understand. I lost one friend and it still bothers me, 2 large bore IVs started and he still bled out in my arms (stepped on an antipersonnel mine and a flechette completely severed the right Iliac artery) He was a tough SOB but still wanted his mother. It hurts to lose even one. Take care my friend, Doc. PS. I was a big admirer of (Then Col.) Hal Moore RIP (7th Calvary) he was level headed under fire and fought alongside his men. He understood combat tactics. So many commanders conducted their troops from a Huey above the battlefield, yes they could have taken ground fire but it was Still safer than actually being boots on the ground with the soldiers. I had no respect for that. I’ll confess to one rule I broke, I took that sissy baby blue helmet off every chance I got. If I was going to be targeted and shot, it was damn well gonna be as a medic! What scared me most was I alway put my back to the incoming fire when treating a casualty, it made it easier to concentrate on treatment and my patient sure as hell wasn’t going to be hit again under my care..I loved those guys! That’s something people can’t understand unless they have been scared to death and sincerely believe it’s your last second to live on God’s earth. And when a Brother went down, I didn’t go because it was my job, I went because nothing was gonna stop me from getting to a buddy screaming in fear more than pain, they needed to hear the reassuring words…It’s not that bad, I got ya and you’re gonna be alright. The morphine did the rest. Lol I’ll shut up, I don’t want to bring back bad memories.
In my readings i recall 2 soldiers 'escaping' Stalingrad after the official surrender. One was a soldier who escaped on foot after a torturous journey only to be blown up by a random mortar shell pretty much moments after reaching German lines....the other was of a soldier who became an interpreter for the Russians and was 'recaptured' later by the Germans as fate would have it...
One of them would be Unteroffizier Nieweg,his saga can be found online.There are reports of groups of men escaping on foot who the Luftwaffe tried to support with droppings.I checked the wehrmacht bulletins and it states that fewer and smaller groups were seen daily. It is said that "Totenkopf"eventually picked him up during a counterattack and he died in a fieldhospital during a suprise Stalin-organ rocket attack.
This is completely false and that story was a fake. The war diary's of the German 6th army and units attached behind the Don never ever recorded such events. This story was fabricated however many German soldiers attempted this but none made it.
The book, Blood Red Snow is a reflection of a German soldier that fled Stalingrad with a platoon mate on miniature ponies. They watched Russian soldiers pass them on each side going after bigger game. Shocking survival till May 8, 1945!
Mister Custalla was in the Rumanian Army at Stalingrad. He said their officers told them to walk NW then west until they found the Germans. He was way back in the line (2-3 abreast) and had no idea where he was going. He followed the guy in front of him, walking for twenty hours straight before they got out. The Germans didn't act too pleased to see them but they got some food and rest.
I had Dinner with my german girlfriend in Boston...this was 1987...her father was with us and im german and half way speak Deutsche..he was the last pilot flying out of stallen grad...he told his story...im honored to hear it..
An Australian doctor , formerly German soldier , told me he was at Stalingrad When he was accepted into medical school , he flew out of Stalingrad. Amazing how German Alles in Ordnung efficiency kept working.
My Great Uncle Gerhard was a German soldier at Stalingrad, captured by the Russians, and marched 3000 miles, on foot, to a POW camp in Siberia. He lost several toes to frostbite. Somehow, the Red Cross knew about him, and my grandparents, in Boston, MA, at the time, were informed. He was released in 1947, was returned to Berlin, and was on a steamship bound for Boston within 30 days. He definitely had PTSD, and hated the Russians until the day he died. This is the short version.
My Dad had a young German officemate in Vietnam during the Vietnam War of the 1960's. The young German was narrating the story that his Dad,a member of the Wermacht, experienced the worst freezing Snow at Stalingrad. Many had frostbites..and the doctor said they will have to cut his legs! 🦵😭 The German soldier said.." l would rather die!". What he did was walk and walk around for quite some time until BLOOD again flowed to his legs.. saving his legs!👍 The German's name was GENSLACHNER and the American soldiers at the camp in Vietnam,at the office called him jokingly as " GUNSLINGER".. which he did not like😅. Sadly, that young German disappeared when he ventured near the Cambodian border😢.. It was presumed he was killed by the Vietcong who considered any White man is an American 😱😭
A truly interesting story, it shook my heart really, to be that close to salvage, and manage to finally get away, in the last minute....... Amazing story.
My father-in-law was with Pzg. Abt. 559 on the north Stalingrad line and was part of an under-strength combat group to rescue survivors of the Italian 8th Army. We haven't learned anything. Today we allow our so-called leaders to foment wars and suffering throughout the world. We haven't learned anything.
I read about a German soldier who fled on foot from the trenches on the eastern front, to the west. I think it was a story in Reader's Digest many years ago. As with all Reader's Digest stories, it was an excerpt from a book. The only thing I remember was that he was the only survivor and that he hid in a haystack to avoid being discovered. Anyone know what book this is about?
@sweper- German title of this book must be "So weit die Füße tragen" in english "As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me " Cornelius Rost was the real german soldier, who maybe did this walk. Some say yes, some say no.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. To be honest, I spent a lot of time on this video. It was very difficult to convey the emotions of this person, I hope that I succeeded.
Two of my great uncles perished at Stalingrad and another at Kursk. Opa was lucky and survived the war, but haunted by ghastly memories the rest of his life. Died in year 2007, age almost 91. It wast horrible times then indeed. So very many thousands to die. So awful, ja.
The unspeakable discipline to listen to the officer and not board the plane despite being fully aware that obeying that command means certain death for you. There are no words to describe that accurately.
Note that a young German (Austrian) Wehrmacht Soldier - Surname ''CERNCIC'' and fellow soldier friend both decided that during the final months of the Stalingrad campaign being a dead lost course, so both decided to exit ''Stalingrad, Russia'' and 'WALK back' to their pre-war Parents in their family ''Cerncic'' home and engineering business in Graz, Austria. Believe this - Soldier Cerncic and his Wehrmacht buddy both made back 'on foot' safe and sound, and Soldier Cerncic immediately took up his pre-war work in his father's engineering factory. Both Wehrmacht soldiers still wore their German Uniforms without any encounters, his younger brother informed me.
It seems that only Dr. Mark Felton mentions the 10,000 German soldiers who did not surrender when Paulus surrendered...and they did fight to the last man.
@@morstyrannis1951 Not true. Depends on the field and which country you are talking about. In some places it is a protected title and in some it is not.
I can recommend watching the movie “stalingrad”. It’s a German film. A scene exactly as described here is also in the film. One of the best war movies ever.
An German imigrant employee of my father's dairy plant also escaped from Stalingrad. He told us that he walked from Stalingrad back to Germany. I don't know how he avoided being executed by Himmler's orders to execute any soldiers found in behind the lines in Russia. He was a clever little man.
My (naturalized) Italian wife had two uncles who fought in Russia in the Italian armed forces. Mario was a motorcycle troop who was terribly wounded. His brother, Renzo, got him on one of the last hospital trains out of the Stalingrad area. Renzo was the Flight Engineer on an S.M. 79 trimotor bomber stationed outside of Stalingrad. Amazingly, they received orders to report to Rome for a meteorology course! They burned hay in the engine nacelles to thaw the oil, and away they went. Luckiest guys in Russia. --Old Guy
Я с другой стороны баррикад, мне 60 лет, родился и всю жизнь живу в Волгограде, бывший Сталинград. Мои родители родились и выросли в Сталинграде, ощутили на себе весь ад Сталинградской битвы в свои 7-8 лет.
@@pb7201 Je dirai ceci : la haine est une émotion très forte. Je me méfie beaucoup des Allemands. Je comprends parfaitement qu'au niveau génétique, ils désirent se venger de cette victoire sur leurs ancêtres. Malheureusement, le français n'est pas ma langue maternelle, mais j'espère que vous me comprenez bien.
@@pb7201 Nur weil du die Deutschen hasst, heißt das nicht, dass andere sie auch hassen, warum auch, kein heute lebender Deutsche hat ihm was getan! Also warum diese törichte Frage?
My mother and i visited her Aunt in a small farm town outside Mannheim 1955. The Aunt had on one wall a large framed photo of a young man uniform. She said he was at Stalingrad. Letters from him suddenly ended; no explanation or death notice ever.
nice, i escaped the war in el salvador in 1984 i was 15..i had been training since i was 7 in 1rst grade, i was a sapper and spy and very good at making bombs.
A good book worth reading , The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer , the account of a machine gunner on the Russian front with the Grosse Deutschland Regiment .
Agreed! I just don't know if anyone would fund a movie about a survivor who was a Nazi. I know it sounds trite, but I think it would be a hurdle to cross. Otherwise, this is a fascinating story about the human condition.
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY Your channel proves the point. You're referring to the feelings and thoughts of human beings, which I find to be very compelling. Hopefully anyone would be fascinated by this story, whether or not the guy was a Nazi.
As an Australian Major I served two tours as a Liaison Officer in Israel and Egypt with the US Multinational Force & Observers. (The Israelis were killing the Palestinians back then.) Anyway, I was flying with a group of soldiers from Cairo to the Sinai on a small plane piloted by a young Lt from the French contingent. The plane was overloaded with guys sitting on the floor in the aisle. As the senior officer on board I asked the Lt pilot: ''Are you prepared to attempt to take off with this heavy load?" He answered with a small shrug: ''Yes, but if we crash I hope I die.'. Ha ha. And so off we went.
@@hubertwalters4300 Well there are a couple of points since you ask. 1. You need to think more. 2. This present Israeli genocide did not start on 7 October 2023. It has been going on for decades.
I used to be a part of the US tech support. I met an old lady with Irish roots whose father was in the Wehrmacht army. She was very nice. Though Ireland was neutral in the WW2 but the people sentiments were with Germany due to their knowledge of the true reason behind the war (Britain keen to occupy the German colonies).
By the WW2 period, Germany had no colonies. You present an ignorant and ridiculous excuse for any sentiment the Irish may have had in favor of the Nazis. Whatever the Ireland vs. Britain animosity (and the Irish certainly had their reasons), being pro-Nazi was disgraceful and inexcusable. The battle for the Atlantic sea lanes, which cost thousands of British and American lives, could have been won earlier and at much less cost, had Ireland not remained adamantly neutral.
@gotmilk7926 German colonies of North Africa are being discussed. Germany had a small empire too just like the Dutch did for example the Dutch discovered Australia and called it New Holland. The US and UK were never true allies and they had naval war for obvious reasons of ego, territory and lack of civic values (heard of Nelson ?). I don't preset any excuse or anything. I am just telling the truth. On the contrary, you idiots teach fake history to your children and make them believe in falsehood. If you keep on bragging about the wester civilization and Anglo-Saxon values or any other values, why were you so territorial at the first place ? Fake news, shaping world views, brainwashing toddlers, fake school syllabi, falsehood and lies underneath everything are still th definition of the sheer education system of the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Heard of the pre-Great war world scenario as in the Geo-political world scenario back then ? The two parties had royal cousins ! UK wanted to rule the whole world by hook or by crook. Russia used the issues at Serbia. Where were the UK and Spain when the Poles were fighting against the muslim invaders in Vienna (pre- Austro-Hungrian empire era) ?? Were they hibernating or just procrastinating ??
@gotmilk7926 Your id reveals your mindset. Learn to unlearn. Whatever you read in your malicious western environment is doctored by your intelligence agencies. Guess what now. The UK archives still have the numerous peace treaties sent by the great Nazi Germany leaders which the British aristocracy and the puppet government kept refusing as they thought they were the stronger side. One more fact, US was about to join the war WITH Germany (as Italy fought with the allies in the WW1) being a democratic and anti-communist and anti-monarchy plus ex-colony of the British (till 1776). At the last moment, the kaput senators and the ex-army officers told the government that this move will make Deutschland superpower and the US will never be able to dominate the world.
@gotmilk7926 Ger your facts right first. I am not a neo-Nazi. I am a full-fledged Nazi. You may demonize anyone and everyone as per your convenience but the world would get to know the truth someday. It reveals itself as us mortals don't run this world. Get above your freak show of a society which is actually no society. Do justice to the various beautiful institutions of life which we Indo-Aryans taught you and you chose to act differently due to some bad Roman missionaries or Jewish rabbies. The world is not just territory to win and people to use as human resource. You are a shameless bunch of brutal people who hate your own personalites. Ask yourself. Do you like anything in your life and around you that is NOT material. Herr Hitler was grossly misrepresented as he wanted Paganism to be revived and evil Christian faith to fade off. Now you are using Socialism for the same cause. If the Christian society would have been so nice and deep, there would have been angel like Britishers and decent Yank merchants and weapon developers. Introspect. Don't teach us this and that. You have no idea about whom you girls are dealing with. Keep your confusion and negativity in your so called developed world with no healthy food and no benevolent socialites. HEIL HITLER
@gotmilk7926 Germany had many colonies in North Africa and I can clearly detect your hatred and jealousy for the great German people as you are ill-equipped yourself. US is still a settlement. You project the great Germanic people as mad Huns with a narrative. You wanted to control the world and dominate Asia as Asia is home to the oldest civilizations of this world (not Mesopotamia actually). You weaponized history, you weaponized education and you used the mob as an asset in the US and the UK as there was no internet or cable TV back then. Only newspapers and radio.
Just to think that all these soldiers meeting such a horrible end could have been avoided, had Hitler and Goering not insisted that they don’t retreat because their ego’s were at stake!
The 2021 USA Government left behind " Afghanistan Allies" in a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan War.People ran to the airport and climbed on to planes only to perish in the air. The World is in " Great Danger" today with a Defeated and Weakened USA Government. God Bless Your Work 😇💒
An exaggeration, 120,000 people were evacuated in the final days. Air Force pilots flew endless flights, it was the largest evacuation of its kind in history. And it was compounded by the fact that Trump's hardening of visa rules, including the S1 for ;people who had assisted our forces, created a massive backlog at the US Embassy and many people didn't have the necessary visa.
Stalingrad was a turning point for another reason. Finally Stalin allowed Igor Kurchatov to smuggle the drawings of the Soviet atom bomb to the White House in 1942. Stalin's condition to the Soviet nuclear scientists was that he shouldn't be blamed for surrendering the design papers and air blast calculations of the Soviet nuclear research program. In return, President promised to treat the Soviets as equal allies during ww2. The Soviet nuclear weapons research program started in 1936.
A narrow escape I would be thanking God for getting out of that hell hole if I was one of those soldiers I would try to do good the rest of my life an appreciation of getting out of there
If you want to get a good idea of what it was like to try and get on one of those last planes out of Stalingrad. Just watch the 1993 German movie: Stalingrad. And I think it does a pretty good job, of what a chaotic and desperate endeavor try
15:04'."Somebody has to get off." Such a starving soldier could weigh about 50 kg/100 pounds. It was enough for everyone in them to take off and throw away a thick coat, which when wet could weigh about 4 kg, plus belts with buckles weighing 0.2 kg. 15x4.2=63 kg.
Imagine being in the queue at the airfield, not knowing if a plane will be available, you’re exhausted, starving, wounded. You’ve lost many comrades, and the Russians are getting closer. When the plane opens the door there is a mad rush to get on. There would be trampling, eye gouging, fist fights… and if you made it you still are in danger of enemy fighters and airplane failure.
Bel video, congratulazioni! Sono riuscito a comprenderlo con la traduzione automatica in italiano! Stalingrado fu una battaglia terribile dove russi e tedeschi si sono affrontati senza esclusioni di colpi! L'errore più grosso di Hitler fu quello di affidare la sesta armata a Paulus che in tutta la sua carriera non aveva mai guidato né una divisione e nessun corpo d'armata!
For Hitler and his arrogant General Paulus, the German soldiers were just chess pieces and not human beings! Paulus and other generals - apart from Srauffenberg and the others in the resistance movement - later always referred to the alleged "Prussian obedience" - But what did Frederick the Great once say to an officer: "That's why he is a Prussian soldier, that he knows when he must n o t obey!
It should be understood that there were many reasons for this. The most banal thing is that there have been epidemics of diseases and famine in the German army for quite a long time. Saving people in a war with such sources is not an easy task.
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY 5,000 men survived and lived to see Germany again. Yes, typhus and dysentery along with malnutrition definitely took a heavy toll.
I think it was 91k captured, 5-6k survived. A lot died from typhus and malnutrition right after being captured tho. Overall, throughout the entire war, if you were a German pow, you had a 14% chance of dying in captivity in Russia, if u were a Russian pow in Germany, you had a 40% chance of dying. For the first few years, russian pows were not fed
If you listened to this video, the narrator said he had been starving for months before he was wounded. The majority of Germans who surrendered were literally dead men walking. If the Soviets had 100K modern hospital beds to out them in, they still would have lost 10s of thousands to their preexisting health and starvation issues. The Germans did not have any accurate count of how many of their own soldiers were alive when Paulus surrendered. The 6th Army had long since ceased having normal military administrative functions. The Soviets didn’t count their prisoners until long after the surrender. But one thing is crystal clear; a far higher percentage of German POW survived Russian captivity than Russian POW in Nazi captivity.
war is madness who startet war is a monster ! we all living in same planet but we dont understande what this mean ! in this point we as humans are fool !
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Hi military club love the videos you do. My question to you is, I was wondering if you could do a comparative of how many years between major wars. I am American and my family from as far back as I know we have had 1 war after another. Like my mom was born in 45 and I was born in 66 the it's like one war ends and a new one begins I have never seen this world without a war it's like that is all we know. Just short descriptions of one to the next. I don't know if this is something you might be interested in doing. Will our world ever know anything else. Thanks all at military club for the great work.11/23/2023
I know that the history of war would be a lot of work from one year to the next because like I said in other comment has this world ever seen a time without a war. Thanks again hope you and yours are well JDP Underhill 11 23 2023
Good video
@@jamespope2840, You ask a strange question.
I think you should answer yourself another question, the answer to which can answer all your questions:
What is the cause of wars?
However, when looking for an answer, keep in mind that for every earthly problem there is only 1 cause (singular), a few reasons why that cause exists in the first place, but there are thousands of symptoms that are born from the cause.
The cause lies in the satanic debt-interest money system with an infinite supply of air money, which is under private (i.e. not state property) law. Its supreme center is the World Bank, which is outside any rights and can do whatever it wants.
However, in order for earthly Satanism to rule over humanity, it needs a form of democracy for this inhumane money system to keep people believing that everything has to be as it is. Above all, making people believe that people are bad, which is why wars are inevitable. That is why satanic pseudo-democracy was introduced at the same time as the satanic money system in the form of colorful parties. Their only task is to give people the illusion that they have a say and to divide the people into as many ideologically led groups (parties) as possible, which even fight each other.
Therefore, a social system of love works as follows: You need an uncontrollable monetary system like Bitcoin or Blackfort (i.e. not controlled by a central bank) and a real people's democracy where there are no elites of any kind, where only the law of swarm intelligence is at work.
This is the cause in their description, with which you can explain all the manifestations (symptoms) of our current, satanic form of society, especially why humanity is kept in a constant state of war.
Consider the simple question: If 99.9990% of all people don't want war, how do 0.0009% (owners of the World Bank in conjunction with its authority, the Vatican) of humanity manage to seduce the other 99.9990% to go to war with each other lead???
Q10 1 q 1
My grandfather was in this airlift effort. A Stuka rear gunner with St.G 151 transferred to Verbindungskommando (S) 4 at Nikolayev as they reassigned any available air crew for cargo duties for the JU52's and HE111.
His narrative is very similar to this account, half frozen men storming the cargo doors
Despite incredible odds flying the long distance to and from Stalingrad, he survived the war, later he wished for no sons and only daughters as men were simply disposable to governments strategic goals.
This is still true today for some nations, Russia, USA, China, Korea...
@@NapFloridian Another really bad thing is after governments are done with their soldiers they just kick them to the curb. My Dad was a WW2 Marine Raider. He did survive the war physically but he had a lot of issues related to the war. I can still remember back in the mid 60's when I was a kid hearing him yell in the night "the Japs are coming!" So more than 20 years later he was having nightmares related to the war. He drank a lot I think to self medicate. He never did get much help from the VA and in 1994 he died in the Veterans hospital in a way that would be very unlikely in a normal hospital. Anyhow for governments soldiers are expendable both in wartime and later in life as well. If they are dead you don't have to keep any promises as far as medical care, pensions or anything else! Something to think about!
@@NapFloridianat least in USA the military is all volunteer.
@@libertycowboy2495 Until it's not.
@@libertycowboy2495 Beleve it or not a lot of guys in Viet Nam,we’re enlisted,we had draftees,but alot were enlisted!Of course in war all are eligible!But as 76 year old Viet Nam veteran!We knew nothing of politics,it was never discussed!The country called and we answered,just like the men before us!I did not realize the fiasco of Viet Nam till,many,many,year later!We trusted our country,and all that aside!America,the greatest place on earth,if you find fault with that,why are so many coming here,many dying to get here!If you don’t like it ,leave on a jet plane!Thomas A.Filipiak 1st Cavalry Viet Nam 1967 1968!!!
Went to high school in Germany in early 70’s and worked a German veteran who was captured at Stalingrad. He was an Luftwaffe enlisted man unable to get on the lasts flights out. He spent nine years as a POW and returned home in 1952. He was a hard worker, an alcoholic and prone to outbursts for no apparent reason. He never mentioned the war other than to say he was one of only 600 to return from a camp of 10,000. We were afraid of him, but he was respected by the other workers.
Tough men indeed!
My next door neighbour in the UK was a German Paratrooper, an Alpine Specialisist as he was from Bavaria. Kicked the Brits out of Greece. Parachuted into Crete, won an Knight's Cross (blown up with his flamethrower whilst attacking pillboxes on the heights of Crete), walked out of Russia with a handful of sunflower seeds as food and was downgraded to defensive duties at Cherbourg where he was capture in 44 and moved to the UK. A great friend and the hardest bastard you have ever met.
I was in the US Army, you know that army who kicked your friends ass...
He killed his fair share of British soldier's and yet move here ???.
@@jackjohnsen8506 Well if you were paying attention and had any knowledge of WW2, which being a Yank you probably have bugger all knowledge of sweet FA, you would realise he kicked the Brits and Commonwealth out of Greece AND Crete, got his ass handed to him by the Russians, and ended up in Cherbourg, where the Allied landings were Yanks, Canadians, Brits. You were not alone. I, being a Vet' with 22 yrs service understood and appreciated what he did. Whereas, you're just a Tw@t.
@@WayneVeck-yb3ul Sorry Wayne, didnt make it clear enough. He was sent to the UK as a POW and stayed after the war.
@@jackjohnsen8506like in Malmedy
My grandfather had been in the german army but he had never spoken to me about that time. It was at his funeral that I learned, by the eulogy, that he had been in Stalingrad and he escaped on foot through the russian lines just days before the collapse making his way back to the own lines. Russian civilians had shown him a safe way.
Due to his injuries and some freezing he was assessed not front usable after this only to be reactivated later in the Volkssturm shortly before the end of the war, when he and the other guy, both(!) of them tasked to defend some unimportand village in Bavaria against the US Army, decided to drop their panzerfausts into the next fishing pond and go home.
It's a miracle he made it back home!
This is an incredible story!!!
Russian civilians showed your grandfather an escape? God was looking out for him! Great story
Amazing man
@@alvarocorral1576la mayoría de Rusos nunca albergaron odio contra los alemanes a pesar de lo que les hicieron
I am from Romania, my grand father escaped from Stalingrad alive but wounded. He told me some stories I will never forget. Cannibalism was rampant in Stalingrad, the Russian civilians were eating one another to survive and if they got some Axis prisoner, well, he got served or dinner. He saw people attacking the solders with their bare hands like zombies just to obtain some food.
Was so cold outside that any sentinel who got asleep risked to be found dead in the morning. The Axis tanks that were running non gasoline could not start if stopped for more than 1h so they had to start thee engines from tine to time and to start a tank you had to do it manually, two men rotating a starter and in those conditions, starving this was like climbing a mountain.
Incredible... thank you for sharing
Lucky tough man
@@darrensussex1153 The old man was tough as a rock, indeed. He was a "constructor" as a civilian, building houses. Christian to the core.
Мои родители родились и выросли в Сталинграде. Весь ад Сталинградской битвы в свои 7-8 лет испытали на себе. Я тоже всю жизнь живу в этом городе. Лично мне очень и очень жаль, что кто-то из немецких, румынских, итальянских солдат и офицеров вернулся живым домой. После всего того, что они сотворили в моём городе, в моей стране просто смерть на поле боя, от голода или болезней была бы для них самой лёгкой расплатой. Ещё раз повторю: мне очень жаль, что кто-то из армии Гитлера и его союзников уцелел в России. Очень жаль.
@@ОлВер-т7л Then we're sorry that you have no soul and still full of hate after that much time. The were just soldiers following orders, many (if not all) of them didn't want to be there. Somehow I doubt that you're that old and still have the energy to post on UA-cam, but if you're real and not a troll then I feel sorry for you.
Thank you for this video!
I feel a very deep and emotional tie to the battle of Stalingrad and the people who perished there.
Out of my family 23 members served in the Wehrmacht. One of my great uncles was Generalleutnant Bogislav von Studnitz, commanding general of the 87th Infanteriedivision and part of the 6th Army. He was reposted and became supreme commander of the North-Agean theater of war (Thesaloniki, Greece) before and thus did not get encircled in Stalingrad. His only son, Ernst-Felix von Studnitz, was not so lucky, he served as a young Leutnant in a Panzergrenadierregiment and was seriously wounded in the final days of the Kessel. He was last seen at the airfield in Gumrak, described in this video and was one of the thousands, hoping to be airlifted out. He never made it out.
A few days after his death, his mother received the news that he had fallen. On EXACTLY the same day, she received the news of her son, another group of officers came to her house to inform her, that her husband - Bogislav von Studnitz, had been killed by partisans in Northern Greece.
Due to this family connection to the Stalingrad tragedy, I for a number of years, was invited to the annual meetings of the Stalingrad Veteran organization meeting each year in Limburg. Very touching to see these old and impressive old gentlemen.
Sadly enough all came to an abrubt stop due to the Covid lock downs.
I am afraid that there will no longer be any such meetings.
Thank you, I'm glad you like our work. Incredibly, this video describes the events that your relative experienced....
The history of your family is amazing, it must be remembered and not forgotten. Unfortunately, this war has brought a lot of grief to families around the world.
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY Yes, history and heritage is important to us in the family. We have direct lineage and can track back to 1306 AD and to this day have family reunions every two years 🙂
God bless your family.
@@Occident. Danke 🙂
@@rabanvonstudnitz771you have such nice family, my family also can be tracked to almost 900 years ago, the documents we have are dated 435 Hijri calendar (Islamic) or 1043 & 1044 Gregorian calendar, that is the oldest we can find. Now this document along others are in the museum in Cairo.
Wish you the best always. Salute to the fallen ones and those survived 🫡
One's motherland is uncompromisable ❤
Thank you for this story about “Friedrich Wilhelm Klemm” who managed to escape by plane.
If you're interested, I'll translate a story from the Stalingrad Kessel that really happened like this:
The last flight out of Stalingrad was so dramatic
To fly, you need airplanes - and airfields. In the third week of January 1943, the Wehrmacht's Army Group South certainly had transport aircraft at its disposal; not particularly many, but still over a hundred operational Junkers Ju 52 and Heinkel He 111 aircraft. But what was no longer available were landing fields. That is why the last flight to rescue the wounded from the Stalingrad cauldron took place on January 23, 1943.
When the Red Army encircled the German 6th Army in the ruins of the city on the Volga on November 22, 1942, there were still seven operational airfields under German control. All of them were located on the west bank of the Volga, between ten and 28 kilometers from the embattled city center. But from day to day, the Red Army tightened its grip on the encirclement, especially when the German attempt to unseat the army was aborted shortly before Christmas. One airfield after another was lost until, in the third week of January, only the improvised Stalingradski airfield could be approached.
Several Soviet artillery batteries concentrated their fire on the airfield. And when planes were about to land, they even intensified their fire. Some aircraft were hit directly before or after landing or were so damaged by splinters that they could no longer fly back - in total, almost half of the 1000 or so transport aircraft used during the airlift to supply the 6th Army were lost; according to various sources, between 488 and 495.
In Stalingradski, hundreds of wounded soldiers were constantly waiting for a chance to be flown out. Permission was granted to soldiers who had the prospect of being able to return to full operational capability after treatment in a properly equipped military hospital. The most seriously injured, on the other hand, had not been given this chance for days - they would hardly have survived the ten-kilometer journey through the freezing cold to the airfield.
On January 22, 1943, Fritz Hartnagel had the chance to leave the cauldron by plane. The almost 26-year-old officer was no longer fit to fight due to frostbite on his hands and feet. But he had made it to Stalingradski and found the strength to run towards one of the three planes that had just landed and climb aboard. When the planes, three converted Heinkel bombers, were full, the crews had to use rifle butts to push away other injured people who tried to squeeze in. Desperate soldiers also clung to the undercarriages.
Fritz Hartnagel, Sophie Scholl's fiancé, was one of the last to be flown out of Stalingrad - but there were actually three more successful flights the next day, January 23, 1943. Among the crew was the then 25-year-old Michael Deiml from Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate.
The Heinkel, piloted by Peter Adrian with the on-board mechanic Deiml, took off from Novocherkask at 7.25 am on that Saturday and landed in Stalingradski at 9.20 am. “As we were unloading the sacks of bread, suddenly shots were fired all around us by Russian fighter planes,” Deiml later reported: ”I immediately jumped into the plane and shot at the attacking planes with a machine gun.” Fortunately, neither the plane nor the crew members, nor the approaching wounded, were injured.
And there was no second attack either: “We hurriedly unloaded our sacks of bread. Suddenly we heard a dull thud and, looking towards it, we saw a soldier without a head fall over next to the rotating propeller on the left engine of our plane. All that was left of the head was blood on the left landing gear.” The man had killed himself, whether out of weakness or deliberately. The Heinkel took off again at 10.45 a.m. and landed in Novocherkask at 12.20 p.m.
The three transport planes from the morning of January 23, 1943 were the last planes that were able to land in the Stalingrad cauldron. In the afternoon of the same day, Soviet troops conquered Stalingradski; there was no longer a suitable airfield. Over the next few days, Deiml and his comrades still dropped supply bombs by parachute, the last time twice on the night of January 28-29, 1945: “The last drop was confirmed by radio from the cauldron.”
Two days later, the German troops trapped in the south of the ruined city surrendered, and on February 2, the last units a little further north finally surrendered. The battle for Stalingrad was over. It had cost the lives of 145,000 Germans directly, and just under 100,000 more were taken prisoner of war, from which only 6,000 returned. The losses of the Red Army are estimated at 700,000 dead and wounded. Of the crews of the last three transport planes, only one survived the war: Michael Deiml. He died shortly before his 91st birthday in 2009.
Ich hoffe ihr mögt diese Geschichte!
OMG....what a harrowing escape. I am a Vietnam combat disabled vet. (Slight) And I cannot even imagine this situation. My grandfather was a POW of the Russians in WW1, and he came back a skeleton and walked with a cane for over a year. I'm happy to hear that this man, like my grandpa made it out alive. Great narration of a most unusual war story.
Sure..... typical American BS underneath anything military or war related. A stolen valor clown. Even under a car commercial in the comments you find them. "I served this and that.... hoping for that "thank you for your service BS"
What army did the grandfather fight in?
In 1967, I was a dental Lab specialist in the US Army in germany near Nurember. I had a german working for me, and his name was Victor Zimmerman. Victor was a surviver of the Russian camps, after he was captured, because He made dental appliances for the Russian officers. Victor died while I was there from the results of his capture. My little unit went to the funeral in our class A uniforms, with our XO....
why dont you make a utube video interview...Just so we all know the story...
@@judetexeira753 I think very few people would find this story interesting, and if they did, they would be old men , like me without the Computer and phone skills, to make it worth while, but thanks for the comment...
@@jackjohnsen8506 I think you underestimate ...There are almost no stories ,About captured german soldiers in Russia......That part is is understudied or not in the public domain...Old men maybe..But there are young people who are curious as well as from a history point of view studies too..If you can...Record and upload..so that these stories remain for ever
@@jackjohnsen8506 I would very interested in watching it and I´m young!
@@tempolimit3693 I don't get your comment, as I didn't say anything about watching something????
These diary entries give me an entirely new perspective on the history of WW II. They are pure gold in my opinion. I became interested in WW I and WW II history when I was 12 years old and my father purchased a subscription to the Timelife WWI & II series. These were very good starter books to get a basic understanding the of the history but they (like most books and documentaries) were always formatted in a large overall perspective of the battles. These diary entries give an individual perspective of what a single soldier experienced. It was so much easier to dislike what to me was the enemy when I was reading or watching from that perspective. Now you’ve humanized the individuals and that makes a huge difference! When I hear what the individual soldiers endured and suffered it makes it impossible to feel anything but sympathy and compassion when I hear the personal diaries of both the German and Russian soldiers, the stifling heat, the knee deep mud, the bitter cold, hope and hopelessness, the starvation….well you get my point. It is especially disturbing when the diary entries suddenly stop and it because the human being I was getting to know is killed in action on such and such a date. It so easy to dislike, even hate when the book refers to an entire army,..it’s not so easy (impossible) to hate when it’s now an actual individual human being with parents, a wife, a girlfriend, a person with hopes and dreams for a future and then, in an instance that’s all gone! It’s entirely different when you humanize a person, regardless of what side they’re fighting for these diary entries completely change my entire perspective of the Second World War. I wish more people would watch/listen to your channel, only good would come from it!
Sincerely,
J Henderson (Doc)
BTW, I was in the army for 3 year and trained as a combat medic as a means to attend medical school and now work as an ER physician. I saw very limited combat under the UN (wearing a pale blue helmet, standing out like a sore thumb) in Bosnia/Herzegovina in ‘93, but that pales in comparison to what these soldiers endured. I hesitate to even mention it! Although it did teach me the idiotic waste of war.
John, or as we would say Doc, no need to minimise or compare your military service to theirs. What matters is; you served. You did your job... And that's all that counts. No one can take that away from you.
@@sking3492 I appreciate your kind words and I considered my military service a privilege. The moment I was assigned to my unit my name was ignored and from then on it was…..Doc, we need you to do this or Doc we need you over here! I couldn’t help but notice you wrote…Quote“or as WE would say..Doc”. The only people that would know to call a medic by that name are the ones that are or have served in the military which leads me to believe that you also served your country.
I felt it would sound very selfish and pathetic to compare my tour in Bosnia under limited risk and one firefight to what the Wehrmacht soldiers endured and suffered for years on the Eastern front. I never went hungry, suffered in the cold from improper clothing and sure as hell didn’t have a psychopath like Hitler giving egotistical orders to hold out, fight and die to the last man! My superiors cared about (us) the men under their command. That’s why I wanted to make it clear and not compare my experience with those poor bastards (most of whom didn’t survive to return home) suffered. I consider the Wehrmacht very different from the SS, the Waffen SS and especially the Einsatzgruppen SS for whom I have the most contempt because they followed behind the Wehrmacht soldiers after the areas had been secured then had the innocent civilians (mostly Jews) lined up in front of deep trenches and murdered by a bullet to the back of the head! Apart from being morally reprehensible and illegal,its downright COWARDLY!
Good talking with you, Asking! Take care.
Doc
@@sking3492…. ‘You served. You did your job. That’s all that matters… and no one can take that away from you.’
I absolutely agree. - A Proud Sergeant, US Air Force, 1985-1989
Thanks, Doc. Vietnam, ‘66-‘67. Never minimize your service, my friend. You stood to, swore the oath and, beyond that, your oath at some deep level within as a medic. All of us have the greatest love and deepest respect for our combat corpsmen/medics.
@@dankelly2147 Hey Brother, I thought you were a veteran. People are so ignorant of the Vietnam war. The welcome home you guys got pisses me off beyond belief. THANK YOU for YOUR service, you put a stop to the dangerous expansion of communism and god help us had you guys not prevented that. Most people don’t understand what it’s like to have someone trying to kill you, that why I minimized my service, had I just be talking to you, I would have been more forthcoming, you, I know, can understand. I lost one friend and it still bothers me, 2 large bore IVs started and he still bled out in my arms (stepped on an antipersonnel mine and a flechette completely severed the right Iliac artery) He was a tough SOB but still wanted his mother. It hurts to lose even one.
Take care my friend,
Doc.
PS. I was a big admirer of (Then Col.) Hal Moore RIP (7th Calvary) he was level headed under fire and fought alongside his men. He understood combat tactics. So many commanders conducted their troops from a Huey above the battlefield, yes they could have taken ground fire but it was Still safer than actually being boots on the ground with the soldiers. I had no respect for that.
I’ll confess to one rule I broke, I took that sissy baby blue helmet off every chance I got. If I was going to be targeted and shot, it was damn well gonna be as a medic! What scared me most was I alway put my back to the incoming fire when treating a casualty, it made it easier to concentrate on treatment and my patient sure as hell wasn’t going to be hit again under my care..I loved those guys! That’s something people can’t understand unless they have been scared to death and sincerely believe it’s your last second to live on God’s earth. And when a Brother went down, I didn’t go because it was my job, I went because nothing was gonna stop me from getting to a buddy screaming in fear more than pain, they needed to hear the reassuring words…It’s not that bad, I got ya and you’re gonna be alright. The morphine did the rest. Lol
I’ll shut up, I don’t want to bring back bad memories.
In my readings i recall 2 soldiers 'escaping' Stalingrad after the official surrender.
One was a soldier who escaped on foot after a torturous journey only to be blown up by a random mortar shell pretty much moments after reaching German lines....the other was of a soldier who became an interpreter for the Russians and was 'recaptured' later by the Germans as fate would have it...
Life is amazing and unpredictable. There are dark turns of fate where there is no justice...
One of them would be Unteroffizier Nieweg,his saga can be found online.There are reports of groups of men escaping on foot who the Luftwaffe tried to support with droppings.I checked the wehrmacht bulletins and it states that fewer and smaller groups were seen daily. It is said that "Totenkopf"eventually picked him up during a counterattack and he died in a fieldhospital during a suprise Stalin-organ rocket attack.
This is completely false and that story was a fake. The war diary's of the German 6th army and units attached behind the Don never ever recorded such events. This story was fabricated however many German soldiers attempted this but none made it.
I also recall only one who made it to the german lines but died soon after.
Mmm mmm what
My grandad's cousin was at Stalingrad with the Italian Army. He deserted & walked back to his home town
Smart decision
Italian army, what a joke.
In Stalingrad they fought hard, same as Romanians, not sure if good. But they all were encircled too.
They were encircled because the Italian and Romanians dropped their weapons and ran away,the officers were bribed by the Russians unfortunately
The book, Blood Red Snow is a reflection of a German soldier that fled Stalingrad with a platoon mate on miniature ponies. They watched Russian soldiers pass them on each side going after bigger game. Shocking survival till May 8, 1945!
Read it last month, great book
There were many incredible stories in this war!
I just got that book and I can't wait to read it.
@@mirquellasantos2716 I decided to read it again today!
@@Here2There.246 If you are going to read it again it means that the book is great. I'll start reading mine tonight.
Mister Custalla was in the Rumanian Army at Stalingrad. He said their officers told them to walk NW then west until they found the Germans. He was way back in the line (2-3 abreast) and had no idea where he was going. He followed the guy in front of him, walking for twenty hours straight before they got out. The Germans didn't act too pleased to see them but they got some food and rest.
I had Dinner with my german girlfriend in Boston...this was 1987...her father was with us and im german and half way speak Deutsche..he was the last pilot flying out of stallen grad...he told his story...im honored to hear it..
Tell it to us here?
Not many stories out of Stalingrad on the German side
How did you manage to misspell Stalingrad? 🤦🏽♀️
@dewilew2137 I was drinking that night and spellchecker wasn't helping me
An incredible story. R.I.P to all those who died there...from both sides.
An Australian doctor , formerly German soldier , told me he was at Stalingrad When he was accepted into medical school , he flew out of Stalingrad. Amazing how German Alles in Ordnung efficiency kept working.
My Great Uncle Gerhard was a German soldier at Stalingrad, captured by the Russians, and marched 3000 miles, on foot, to a POW camp in Siberia.
He lost several toes to frostbite. Somehow, the Red Cross knew about him, and my grandparents, in Boston, MA, at the time, were informed.
He was released in 1947, was returned to Berlin, and was on a steamship bound for Boston within 30 days.
He definitely had PTSD, and hated the Russians until the day he died.
This is the short version.
My Dad had a young German officemate in Vietnam during the Vietnam War of the 1960's.
The young German was narrating the story that his Dad,a member of the Wermacht, experienced the worst freezing Snow at Stalingrad.
Many had frostbites..and the doctor said they will have to cut his legs! 🦵😭
The German soldier said.." l would rather die!".
What he did was walk and walk around for quite some time until BLOOD again flowed to his legs.. saving his legs!👍
The German's name was GENSLACHNER and the American soldiers at the camp in Vietnam,at the office called him jokingly as
" GUNSLINGER"..
which he did not like😅.
Sadly, that young German disappeared when he ventured near the Cambodian border😢..
It was presumed he was killed by the Vietcong who considered any White man is an American 😱😭
Holy shit, they REALLY made him walk 3000 miles?
A truly interesting story, it shook my heart really, to be that close to salvage, and manage to finally get away, in the last minute.......
Amazing story.
So incredibly tragic. The loss of lives in ww2 is still immeasurable.
1 million died in Iraq, notice you don’t give a shit
My Grandfather Born 1913 left Stalingrad 1 Week before the Ring was closed.He had so much luck
Oh my God, unbelievable!! Thank you for sharing.
This is the best of these stories by far that I have heard. Wow.
My father-in-law was with Pzg. Abt. 559 on the north Stalingrad line and was part of an under-strength combat group to rescue survivors of the Italian 8th Army. We haven't learned anything. Today we allow our so-called leaders to foment wars and suffering throughout the world. We haven't learned anything.
Very sad, but very true.
Non! Les allemands vous n'avez rien appris! Vous resterez un peuple maudit de violeurs et d'assassins pour des générations encore!!! Pouah!
Great respect to this wonded German officer for not letting the pilot remove anyone from the plane
If I was born in Germany in 1920, I would have been fighting for the Nazis believing that God and truth was on my side. An unnerving thought.
I guess your family had the good sense to get out before you were conscripted.
@@RobCummings God and truth was on nobody's side in WW2
They were defending their own people, what is wrong with that?
Since i watched the documentary Europa the last battle i am on your side!
Then Israel clapped
Thank you.The horrible feeling of being left behind.....Oh my days!
brilliantly done! sad but dramatic chronicle > Audio and Video par excellence. Keep em' coming
Thank you, I will try to continue to please you with my videos! Your reaction to the video inspires me to new feats!))
I read about a German soldier who fled on foot from the trenches on the eastern front, to the west. I think it was a story in Reader's Digest many years ago. As with all Reader's Digest stories, it was an excerpt from a book. The only thing I remember was that he was the only survivor and that he hid in a haystack to avoid being discovered. Anyone know what book this is about?
Henry Metellman
@@AquilesN I don't think it was about him, but, thanks for the interesting recommendation. The book you mentioned is on my to read list.
I think it was called "Blood and Snow" an was the story Of a Machine gunner, who survived until the end of the war.
Thank you @@jackjohnsen8506 I will have a look at the book.
@sweper-
German title of this book must be "So weit die Füße tragen" in english "As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me "
Cornelius Rost was the real german soldier, who maybe did this walk. Some say yes, some say no.
The title is correct. Very well done.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. To be honest, I spent a lot of time on this video. It was very difficult to convey the emotions of this person, I hope that I succeeded.
Two of my great uncles perished at Stalingrad and another at Kursk. Opa was lucky and survived the war, but haunted by ghastly memories the rest of his life. Died in year 2007, age almost 91. It wast horrible times then indeed. So very many thousands to die. So awful, ja.
It's a letter from book" Survivors of Stalingrad" By R. Busch. Great book highly recommend.
Knew I recognised this from somewhere. Good spot.
The unspeakable discipline to listen to the officer and not board the plane despite being fully aware that obeying that command means certain death for you. There are no words to describe that accurately.
Note that a young German (Austrian) Wehrmacht Soldier - Surname ''CERNCIC'' and fellow soldier friend both decided that during the final months of the Stalingrad campaign being a dead lost course, so both decided to exit ''Stalingrad, Russia'' and 'WALK back' to their pre-war Parents in their family ''Cerncic'' home and engineering business in Graz, Austria. Believe this - Soldier Cerncic and his Wehrmacht buddy both made back 'on foot' safe and sound, and Soldier Cerncic immediately took up his pre-war work in his father's engineering factory. Both Wehrmacht soldiers still wore their German Uniforms without any encounters, his younger brother informed me.
Great story indeed..... Quite depressing but awesome for some new WW2 movie blockbuster.
Would watch.
It seems that only Dr. Mark Felton mentions the 10,000 German soldiers who did not surrender when Paulus surrendered...and they did fight to the last man.
Well fighting went on at least until March 43.
Will hear from them if any of their diaries comes up certainly
Professor Mark Felton.
@@csjrogerson2377Professor and Doctor are interchangeable.
@@morstyrannis1951 Not true. Depends on the field and which country you are talking about. In some places it is a protected title and in some it is not.
Almost cried towards the end.
You are a great narrator, I could listen to you all day. Great video also.
AI
@@JohnSmith-un9jm holy crap I think you're right. I was fooled.
I can recommend watching the movie “stalingrad”. It’s a German film. A scene exactly as described here is also in the film. One of the best war movies ever.
This story would make one hell of a motion picture.
An German imigrant employee of my father's dairy plant also escaped from Stalingrad. He told us that he walked from Stalingrad back to Germany. I don't know how he avoided being executed by Himmler's orders to execute any soldiers found in behind the lines in Russia. He was a clever little man.
My (naturalized) Italian wife had two uncles who fought in Russia in the Italian armed forces. Mario was a motorcycle troop who was terribly wounded. His brother, Renzo, got him on one of the last hospital trains out of the Stalingrad area. Renzo was the Flight Engineer on an S.M. 79 trimotor bomber stationed outside of Stalingrad. Amazingly, they received orders to report to Rome for a meteorology course! They burned hay in the engine nacelles to thaw the oil, and away they went. Luckiest guys in Russia. --Old Guy
Great story.
A few got out on planes, but after loss of gumrak runway, that was it. Next stop Siberian salt mines.
Que Deus tenha as almas desses verdadeiros guerreiros do 6° exercito !
THE GERMANS WERE WAGING A WAR OF CONQUEST AND EXTERMINATION IN THE USSR- AND THEY DESERVE NO SYMPATHY WHATSOEVER!!!!
Sabe o que está pedindo?
Je suis français mais franchement, ces guerriers sacrifiés le méritent tout autant que ceux d'en face.
@@bouchacourtthierry8506 How can you a frenchman be rooting for the nazis after what the ss did to ffrance.🤡
Я с другой стороны баррикад, мне 60 лет, родился и всю жизнь живу в Волгограде, бывший Сталинград. Мои родители родились и выросли в Сталинграде, ощутили на себе весь ад Сталинградской битвы в свои 7-8 лет.
Les gens ne comprennent pas que le peuple Russe a souffert et de l'invasion Allemande nationale socialiste ET du régime soviétique en même temps.
J'espère que vous avez la haine des allemands ??!!
@@pb7201 Je dirai ceci : la haine est une émotion très forte. Je me méfie beaucoup des Allemands. Je comprends parfaitement qu'au niveau génétique, ils désirent se venger de cette victoire sur leurs ancêtres. Malheureusement, le français n'est pas ma langue maternelle, mais j'espère que vous me comprenez bien.
@@pb7201
Nur weil du die Deutschen hasst, heißt das nicht, dass andere sie auch hassen, warum auch, kein heute lebender Deutsche hat ihm was getan! Also warum diese törichte Frage?
Germans and Russians should be friends, US out of Eurasia.
My mother and i visited her Aunt in a small farm town outside Mannheim 1955. The Aunt had on one wall a large framed photo of a young man uniform. She said he was at Stalingrad. Letters from him suddenly ended; no explanation or death notice ever.
When i read the book, _Enemy At The Gates_ , tears flowed.
nice, i escaped the war in el salvador in 1984 i was 15..i had been training since i was 7 in 1rst grade, i was a sapper and spy and very good at making bombs.
A good book worth reading , The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer , the account of a machine gunner on the Russian front with the Grosse Deutschland Regiment .
I've read that was fiction
A horrible waste of life❤& young men (6th Army)✌️
Would make a GREAT movie!
Agreed! I just don't know if anyone would fund a movie about a survivor who was a Nazi. I know it sounds trite, but I think it would be a hurdle to cross. Otherwise, this is a fascinating story about the human condition.
@@matttilley8620 Just because he was an officer in the Army doesn't mean he was a member of the Nazi Party, in the SS everyone was a member.
@@hubertwalters4300 I failed to explain myself clearly. Let's put it this way: I agree with you.
I agree. It seems to me that Hollywood loses a lot by not paying attention to the Eastern Front....
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY Your channel proves the point. You're referring to the feelings and thoughts of human beings, which I find to be very compelling. Hopefully anyone would be fascinated by this story, whether or not the guy was a Nazi.
99% of film footage displayed here I have never seen before.
Thank you.
As an Australian Major I served two tours as a Liaison Officer in Israel and Egypt with the US Multinational Force & Observers. (The Israelis were killing the Palestinians back then.) Anyway, I was flying with a group of soldiers from Cairo to the Sinai on a small plane piloted by a young Lt from the French contingent. The plane was overloaded with guys sitting on the floor in the aisle. As the senior officer on board I asked the Lt pilot: ''Are you prepared to attempt to take off with this heavy load?" He answered with a small shrug: ''Yes, but if we crash I hope I die.'. Ha ha. And so off we went.
And the Palestinians were killing Israelis back then, so what's the point?
@@hubertwalters4300 Well there are a couple of points since you ask. 1. You need to think more. 2. This present Israeli genocide did not start on 7 October 2023. It has been going on for decades.
Amazing story
I used to be a part of the US tech support. I met an old lady with Irish roots whose father was in the Wehrmacht army. She was very nice. Though Ireland was neutral in the WW2 but the people sentiments were with Germany due to their knowledge of the true reason behind the war (Britain keen to occupy the German colonies).
By the WW2 period, Germany had no colonies. You present an ignorant and ridiculous excuse for any sentiment the Irish may have had in favor of the Nazis. Whatever the Ireland vs. Britain animosity (and the Irish certainly had their reasons), being pro-Nazi was disgraceful and inexcusable. The battle for the Atlantic sea lanes, which cost thousands of British and American lives, could have been won earlier and at much less cost, had Ireland not remained adamantly neutral.
@gotmilk7926 German colonies of North Africa are being discussed. Germany had a small empire too just like the Dutch did for example the Dutch discovered Australia and called it New Holland.
The US and UK were never true allies and they had naval war for obvious reasons of ego, territory and lack of civic values (heard of Nelson ?).
I don't preset any excuse or anything. I am just telling the truth. On the contrary, you idiots teach fake history to your children and make them believe in falsehood. If you keep on bragging about the wester civilization and Anglo-Saxon values or any other values, why were you so territorial at the first place ?
Fake news, shaping world views, brainwashing toddlers, fake school syllabi, falsehood and lies underneath everything are still th definition of the sheer education system of the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Heard of the pre-Great war world scenario as in the Geo-political world scenario back then ? The two parties had royal cousins ! UK wanted to rule the whole world by hook or by crook. Russia used the issues at Serbia.
Where were the UK and Spain when the Poles were fighting against the muslim invaders in Vienna (pre- Austro-Hungrian empire era) ?? Were they hibernating or just procrastinating ??
@gotmilk7926 Your id reveals your mindset. Learn to unlearn. Whatever you read in your malicious western environment is doctored by your intelligence agencies. Guess what now.
The UK archives still have the numerous peace treaties sent by the great Nazi Germany leaders which the British aristocracy and the puppet government kept refusing as they thought they were the stronger side.
One more fact, US was about to join the war WITH Germany (as Italy fought with the allies in the WW1) being a democratic and anti-communist and anti-monarchy plus ex-colony of the British (till 1776). At the last moment, the kaput senators and the ex-army officers told the government that this move will make Deutschland superpower and the US will never be able to dominate the world.
@gotmilk7926 Ger your facts right first. I am not a neo-Nazi. I am a full-fledged Nazi. You may demonize anyone and everyone as per your convenience but the world would get to know the truth someday. It reveals itself as us mortals don't run this world. Get above your freak show of a society which is actually no society.
Do justice to the various beautiful institutions of life which we Indo-Aryans taught you and you chose to act differently due to some bad Roman missionaries or Jewish rabbies. The world is not just territory to win and people to use as human resource.
You are a shameless bunch of brutal people who hate your own personalites. Ask yourself. Do you like anything in your life and around you that is NOT material.
Herr Hitler was grossly misrepresented as he wanted Paganism to be revived and evil Christian faith to fade off. Now you are using Socialism for the same cause. If the Christian society would have been so nice and deep, there would have been angel like Britishers and decent Yank merchants and weapon developers. Introspect. Don't teach us this and that.
You have no idea about whom you girls are dealing with. Keep your confusion and negativity in your so called developed world with no healthy food and no benevolent socialites.
HEIL HITLER
@gotmilk7926 Germany had many colonies in North Africa and I can clearly detect your hatred and jealousy for the great German people as you are ill-equipped yourself.
US is still a settlement. You project the great Germanic people as mad Huns with a narrative.
You wanted to control the world and dominate Asia as Asia is home to the oldest civilizations of this world (not Mesopotamia actually). You weaponized history, you weaponized education and you used the mob as an asset in the US and the UK as there was no internet or cable TV back then. Only newspapers and radio.
My favourite channel 😍
Just to think that all these soldiers meeting such a horrible end could have been avoided, had Hitler and Goering not insisted that they don’t retreat because their ego’s were at stake!
Amazing. Show!
The 2021 USA Government left behind " Afghanistan Allies" in a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan War.People ran to the airport and climbed on to planes only to perish in the air.
The World is in " Great Danger" today with a Defeated and Weakened USA Government.
God Bless Your Work 😇💒
Europe must associate with Great and Holly Russia.
USA are doomed.
Trump 2024!!!
An exaggeration, 120,000 people were evacuated in the final days. Air Force pilots flew endless flights, it was the largest evacuation of its kind in history. And it was compounded by the fact that Trump's hardening of visa rules, including the S1 for ;people who had assisted our forces, created a massive backlog at the US Embassy and many people didn't have the necessary visa.
Excellent photographs
An enigma makes people shiver.
My Uncle was in Stalingrad and escaped living on birch tree bark to chew on.
Stalingrad was a turning point for another reason. Finally Stalin allowed Igor Kurchatov to smuggle the drawings of the Soviet atom bomb to the White House in 1942. Stalin's condition to the Soviet nuclear scientists was that he shouldn't be blamed for surrendering the design papers and air blast calculations of the Soviet nuclear research program. In return, President promised to treat the Soviets as equal allies during ww2. The Soviet nuclear weapons research program started in 1936.
Reminds me of an Ryan air flight
😅😅😅😅😅
A narrow escape I would be thanking God for getting out of that hell hole if I was one of those soldiers I would try to do good the rest of my life an appreciation of getting out of there
Wow that was intense
If you want to get a good idea of what it was like to try and get on one of those last planes out of Stalingrad. Just watch the 1993 German movie: Stalingrad. And I think it does a pretty good job, of what a chaotic and desperate endeavor try
The suffering of the soldiers while the worthless leaders lived in comfort
15:04'."Somebody has to get off." Such a starving soldier could weigh about 50 kg/100 pounds. It was enough for everyone in them to take off and throw away a thick coat, which when wet could weigh about 4 kg, plus belts with buckles weighing 0.2 kg. 15x4.2=63 kg.
wow. you are really intelligent.
Heinz Konsalik also wrote a book about an escape on foot from Stalingrad. Who watching this is old enough to have read Konsalik?
both fascinating and terrifying
Whoa. This was deep ….
Imagine being in the queue at the airfield, not knowing if a plane will be available, you’re exhausted, starving, wounded. You’ve lost many comrades, and the Russians are getting closer. When the plane opens the door there is a mad rush to get on. There would be trampling, eye gouging, fist fights… and if you made it you still are in danger of enemy fighters and airplane failure.
Source for this story? How can we verify the authenticity?
처절함이 그대로 묻어나는 이야기!
Fantastic story !
RIP heiliges Deutschland ❤
Is there anymore of this guy's story?
Bel video, congratulazioni! Sono riuscito a comprenderlo con la traduzione automatica in italiano! Stalingrado fu una battaglia terribile dove russi e tedeschi si sono affrontati senza esclusioni di colpi! L'errore più grosso di Hitler fu quello di affidare la sesta armata a Paulus che in tutta la sua carriera non aveva mai guidato né una divisione e nessun corpo d'armata!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked this video despite the language barrier!
For Hitler and his arrogant General Paulus, the German soldiers were just chess pieces and not human beings!
Paulus and other generals - apart from Srauffenberg and the others in the resistance movement - later always referred to the alleged "Prussian obedience" - But what did Frederick the Great once say to an officer: "That's why he is a Prussian soldier, that he knows when he must n o t obey!
Russian soldiers were the same for Stalin. Even worse.
How could those planes carry tons of food but then not be able to carry more than a few soldiers?
incredible story
Wow that was intense!
Does Henkel takes only 640kg of bombs (8x80kg per person)?
Be interesting to know his fate post flight .
Thanks
16:53 Is this Stalingrad? Krasnoarmaysk?
This is the southernmost district of Stalingrad.
It is said, "there are no atheist in foxholes." Guess that includes those aboard the last plane.
That's for sure! I also really liked his phrase about the most sincere prayer!)))
Nuestros héroes.los compañeros de mi abuelo
thanks
What was this Germ officers name?
Out of the almost 100k who were captures only 3k survived.
It should be understood that there were many reasons for this. The most banal thing is that there have been epidemics of diseases and famine in the German army for quite a long time. Saving people in a war with such sources is not an easy task.
@@MilitaryClubHISTORY 5,000 men survived and lived to see Germany again. Yes, typhus and dysentery along with malnutrition definitely took a heavy toll.
5k survive
I think it was 91k captured, 5-6k survived. A lot died from typhus and malnutrition right after being captured tho. Overall, throughout the entire war, if you were a German pow, you had a 14% chance of dying in captivity in Russia, if u were a Russian pow in Germany, you had a 40% chance of dying. For the first few years, russian pows were not fed
If you listened to this video, the narrator said he had been starving for months before he was wounded. The majority of Germans who surrendered were literally dead men walking. If the Soviets had 100K modern hospital beds to out them in, they still would have lost 10s of thousands to their preexisting health and starvation issues. The Germans did not have any accurate count of how many of their own soldiers were alive when Paulus surrendered. The 6th Army had long since ceased having normal military administrative functions. The Soviets didn’t count their prisoners until long after the surrender.
But one thing is crystal clear; a far higher percentage of German POW survived Russian captivity than Russian POW in Nazi captivity.
My wife’s uncle died somewhere in Russia. I have his medals.
Hm. The JU-52 could carry 17 passengers. Probably a few more in a pinch, since so many soldiers were underweight.
I think the 3 planes that landed were Heinkel 111 bombers
The boyfriend of my mother didn't make it out of Stalingrad. Never returend
Is there any Kind of source?!
What was the officers name?
war is madness who startet war is a monster ! we all living in same planet but we dont understande what this mean ! in this point we as humans are fool !